All entries for October 2023

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Molecular mechanism of bacterial electrical signalling

Bringing light to bacterial electrophysiology – bacterial optogenetics

Electrogenetics – engineering living electronic transducer protein

Munehiro Asally : 31 Oct 2023 16:28 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

New Preprint! BeAST and Yeast!

Excited to share this new preprint!

Bioelectrical antimicrobial susceptibility testing (BeAST) with the budding yeast S. cerevisiae

Congratulations to Tailise and the team! This was a great collaboration with Tasic lab @Unicamp, Brazil (more collaboration to be followed, hopefully!)

In this work, we investigated how membrane potential of yeast changes after stimulated with an externally applied electric field. We found that non-inhibited cells show a hyperpolarisation upon electric stimulation. Interestingly, the magnitude of hyperpolarisation correlates with the level of growth inhibition. Thus, we propose this could be used as a Bio-electrical AST.

https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.10.05.561038

Munehiro Asally : 16 Oct 2023 16:56 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem